Example sentences of "come [conj] go [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now it seemed to come and go on the wind . |
| 2 | I 'll be able to come and go to the mortuary . |
| 3 | It seems that , despite the Council , pilgrims continued to come and go to the tomb of St Peter , and this was not irrelevant , for the noise and disturbance prevented many from hearing what was said . |
| 4 | The KDPI were able to come and go across the frontier and through the no man 's land between the opposing armies with great freedom . |
| 5 | Would she be free to come and go in the Casa Guidi as she liked ? |
| 6 | Various other formats have come and gone over the years , but these are the ones which have become established and likely to remain for the foreseeable future . |
| 7 | Few people can appreciate Basil 's contribution for none of the present generation started with him in the County , and none of those who have come and gone over the years has ever had the same influence with the teachers for he had a diffidence and a modesty which helped then , a lot . |
| 8 | In fairness to the young girls who had come and gone over the years , he had deliberately picked well-stacked , dimwitted types whose only claim to fame was the fact that they were a good lay . |
| 9 | Two trains had come and gone on the northbound platform of the Bakerloo line at Marylebone tube station , but Harry had boarded neither . |
| 10 | Since then the spots have come and gone with a period of roughly 11 years . |
| 11 | Favourites , reform commissions and ordinances had come and gone with no sign of improvement either in the king 's government or in public order ; indeed , the realm was now in a state of virtual brigandage . |
| 12 | She had come and gone like a shadow . |
| 13 | Several researchers joined the group , masquerading as believers , and were thus present when midnight came and went without the prophecy being fulfilled . |
| 14 | People came and went along the street . |
| 15 | Julia felt too ill to be interested in what he was doing , and in any case her mind came and went as the waves of fever rose and fell , but she heard Comfort say : |
| 16 | The lorries came and went on a service road near the town ; on some days the bulldozer clanked back and forth , crushing the rubbish into the soft , orange earth . |
| 17 | Though there were complaints in some places that 1 January 1913 came and went with no settlement in sight and though seamen on weekly boats in Hull were aggrieved at receiving less than their colleagues elsewhere , 2s.6d increases on weekly wages and 10s on monthly were fairly readily conceded , more in some places . |
| 18 | CHRISTMAS CAME AND WENT WITH NO CARD FROM ELEANOR . |
| 19 | Norfolk police , too , reported that the flood waters were abating and in Kent the high tide came and went with no need for evacuation . |
| 20 | Prince Charles Edward Stuart , ‘ Bonnie Prince Charlie ’ , came and went with a song , 10,000 starving Highlanders , and 12,000 Glasgow shirts . |
| 21 | Oak forests came and went with the hawk 's wing |
| 22 | He would just came and went into the yardmaster 's office and had a word or two with him and then he would maybe ask to see the staff local representative and the local committee . |
| 23 | ( The Beans always came and went through the kitchen . ) |
| 24 | On the open deck in the stern , between life-jackets and coiled mooring ropes , prayer mats were laid out and men came and went throughout the day to pray towards the eastern shore . |
| 25 | Her sickness came and went throughout the day . |
| 26 | School came and went in the way that a school day usually lasts . |
| 27 | It was as if his seasons came and went in the phrases he wrote . |
| 28 | Martha and the Muffins and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark , both Wilson discoveries , came and went in the charts — and still negotiations dragged on . |
| 29 | The patients who recovered in these boxes and enclosures came and went like the inmates of any other busy casualty ward , but , of course , there were big differences : most importantly , there was no waiting list , and no one had to pay ! |
| 30 | The acid trip came and went like an image on a screen , sometimes faint , sometimes strong — music among the trees , Lori 's dark head singing , colours among the undergrowth , curling like lurid fog , light crowning the treetops , Lori seeming to move in a stately dance . |